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America, the greatest nation in the history of the world, has started a long and straight slide to death by political correctness, multiculturalism and cultural relativism. That’s coming about because of the inability of our leaders to recognize the advance of the stealth jihad. So, America and the West wake up before you fall victim to a relentless, bloody and stealth jihad and become subject to Islamofascism. Europe is already virtually gone, as Mark Steyn concluded in his classic book, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Is America next? I’ve been waiting for a clarion...

In my column on Wednesday, I documented only a small part of the massive case against the confirmation of Eric Holder for attorney general. I thought that his illegally and improperly facilitating the pardoning of 18 unrepentant terrorists and the biggest tax swindler in history who was also a fugitive for justice for 20 years was enough to raise fatal questions about President-elect Barack ObamaÂ’s judgment and confirmation. But then I saw how the mainstream media is greasing the skids for his nomination, over any and all objections, so I thought I better spend more time trying to wake up...

This is a column about the many missteps and potential missteps of President-elect Barack Obama as his transition team goes about its duties. But first, let me go on record as not believing we have to give him the benefit of the doubt, as suggested even by some conservative pundits such as Fox Cable News host Bill O’Reilly, or that he is entitled to some sort of honeymoon, as suggested by Sen. John McCain, who saw no stonewalling in his recent stalling on the Illinois governor scandal, contrary to the sound and persuasive views of the Republican National Committee. I...

Everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence. But there’s also a presumption that when you emerge from the cesspool of Chicago politics, you don’t come out perfectly clean. That’s where President-elect Barack Obama came from, so buyer beware. There’s also a presumption that anything that might cast even a slight negative light on Mr. Obama or the Democratic Party was censored out by the mainstream media, which only post-election is discovering the nature of the political environment that produced the next president of the United States. Where are House Majority Leader Rep. Nancy “San Francisco Values?” Ms. Pelosi, D-Calif.,...

One of the reasons we are now on the track to lose the war against terror is the mainstream media, which often seems to be more on the side of the terrorists than the side of America. I went into more detail on this proposition yesterday in my column available at the Bulletin's Web site, www.thebulletin.us. But it is more than that. Because of the dangerous and distorted perspective of the mainstream media, the people and their political leaders that rely on it don't get a picture of the real world and don't get the criticism and perspective that more...

This is a column on the new faces of terrorism, but before getting into the main subject I want to show my generosity in helping out our new president. Despite all my criticism, I want him to succeed and am willing to help in any reasonable way toward that end. The President-elect, Barack Obama, is considering making a major foreign policy speech during his first 100 days as president in an Islamic capital in order to mend rifts between the U.S. and the Muslim world. According to published reports, it is not clear from press reports why he feels such...

There is now growing evidence that Sen. Barack Obama bought the White House by using illegal and fraudulent fundraising, but that's a story you won't read in the mainstream media. You will read about it here today. While that story of Obama election law violations is still developing, what is the mainstream media reporting on? The New York Times isn't interested in election fraud ... if committed by Sen. Obama and the Democrats. So it is using its resources to investigate the amount of money the McCain campaign spent on hair stylists for Gov. Sarah Palin. (New York Times, Dec. 6,...

We are losing the war on terror and that war will be lost without even firing a gun or exploding a bomb - although there may be more of both even in the U.S. For proof of that, I urge you to read Robert Spencer's new book, The Silent Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs. I rarely devote more than one column to one book. But Mr. Spencer's book is such urgent reading that I have already done two columns on his book (Tuesday and Wednesday of this week now on The Bulletin's Web site...

Our colleges and universities have not only become centers of anti-Americanism but are also becoming centers facilitating the stealth jihad - the gradual transformation of America into a theocracy subject to sharia (Muslim law). As they have already almost succeeded in doing, the Muslims are now in the process of taking over America without a shot being fired or a bomb going off. Yesterday, I wrote about the stealth jihad, which has already turned Europe into Eurabia and destroyed its Judeo-Christian basis. And now it looks like America is starting down that same path to civilizational suicide. This conclusion is...

Radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs. That's the subtitle of a frightening and important new book by Robert Spencer, one of the leading authorities on radical Islam. We may have been spared the guns and bombs of the Islamofascist terrorists since 9/11, but we haven't been spared their attempt to substitute the laws of Islam for the U.S. Constitution and to make America more like Iran, Saudia Arabia, or the Sudan, where the Muslim laws are in full force. Mr. Spencer is an important voice of these matters, and if you think this is too shocking to...

You may have heard enough about the biased mainstream media, but here is something new and important. We are at the beginning of an important, well-conceived and powerful organized effort to bring down the mainstream media. It is sponsored by the media watchdog, Accuracy in Media (AIM), an organization that has been fighting the almost total leftist bias found in the mainstream media for about 40 years. So one of my most fervent prayers has been answered. And the answer comes in a form that will finally wage an effective battle against one of America's most dangerous enemies, an enemy...

We are in danger of letting the strong strain of appeasement and pacifism now abroad in the land prevent us from taking early steps now that will prevent unspeakable calamities later. The classic case of history is the appeasement of Adolf Hitler leading up to World War II. The West finally woke up to the need to stop Hitler, but by then, instead of a relatively small police operation we had World War II that cost 72 million lives and untold other casualties, property damage, and international disruption. The issue now is whether we are displaying the same moral blindness...

One of the most powerful media figures has blamed the newspapers downward plunge in circulation and profits on the fact that they have forfeited the trust and loyalty of their readers. But I think his basis for saying this is misplaced or incomplete. According to Rupert Murdoch, who offered this diagnosis of newspaper troubles, the problem lies in the "complacency and condescension" in some newsrooms. He says, "The complacency stems from having enjoyed a monopoly - and now finding they have to compete for an audience they once took for granted. The condescension that many show their readers is an...

Iran is marching inexorably toward a nuclear bomb. So the Middle East is marching toward devastation and destruction too horrible to even comprehend. And the world is marching toward the destruction of Middle East oil or its supply of oil being cut off by a regime of genocidal maniacs who are so crazy they would invite their own destruction if it would be part of an exchange that destroys infidels. These genocidal maniacs are also now the center of world terrorism, so it is clear they would not hesitate to become the world supplier of dirty bombs and nuclear weapons...

One of the great mysteries of life is the prevalence, in our own country, of so many hate-America types. This week I've discussed their power and presence in our colleges and universities and how they indoctrinate and teach their students through lectures and writings how to hate America. I must admit that when someone hates America, the greatest democracy in the history of the world, which has produced virtually unlimited opportunity for all, I can't explain it. When you encounter such an irrational force, there seems to be no rational explanation. So some of the most powerful observers of the...

There is an ongoing epidemic in the land that may be more dangerous than any we've experienced before. It's not spread by bacteria or viruses, but can be fatal not simply to a person but to a nation. That epidemic is one of anti-Americanism or what might be called hate-Americanism. It is spread in many ways, including by politicians and a political party, by a president-elect and his associates, by the mainstream media and by colleges and universities. One of the most important ways it is spread is by the teaching of history in our colleges and universities, which is...

Before the endless and extended celebration of the election of Barack Obama to the presidency continues, perhaps we ought to pause occasionally to figure out whom we've elected. Is it too disturbing a thought to suggest before you celebrate someone's election, you figure out who you've elected? I'm all for celebrating the election of the first black man to the presidency in history, although I do it with one qualification - America had nothing to prove to itself or the world because it had already demonstrated it was not a racist society, and was the greatest source of opportunity for...

I find one of the more amusing although important questions is how will President-elect Barack Obama govern? As a moderate and centrist, or as an extremist, radical and liberal? I can answer such questions with another question: When your whole career and resume shows you are a leftist, an extremist, a radical, a liberal, and a 96 percent pure party line Democrat, are you are likely to be just that no matter what you say in the campaign? Mr. Obama ran far-left to win the primaries and then veered quickly to the center to win the general election. And now...

Most view the mainstream media and its biased, dishonest and fraudulent reporting almost as a side issue in the grand picture of things. I view it as perhaps the central issue of our time, as the mainstream media is so distorting the political world and so deceiving the public that it is actually in the process of destroying our democratic institutions. It is instrumental in America making the wrong decisions such as on how to wage the war on terror. First, the mainstream media committed the greatest electoral fraud in history by selling one of the most unqualified, inexperienced and...

I thought after the mainstream media had succeeded in electing its anointed candidate for president and after they had acted as an unofficial campaign manger for Sen. Barack Obama, that there might be some return to journalistic principles. The conventional wisdom is that once in office, the mainstream media subjects the president to relentless criticism. So I thought there might be a slight letup in the biased, dishonest and fraudulent journalism flooding forth from the mainstream media to advance Sen. Obama and the Democratic Party. But as I checked magazines and newspapers and listened to President-Elect Obama's first press conference,...